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Can you please explain what exactly bot were doing? What was their goal? Yes, I've seen bot scraping sites, which is expected. But what queries bots were doing
by betaby 4y ago
Can you please explain what exactly bot were doing? What was their goal? Yes, I've seen bot scraping sites, which is expected. But what queries bots were doing towards niche search engine?
- marginalia_nu 4y agoSearch queries look like spam, like the sort of spam keywords you will find in comment spam. "Free cialis 50mg online pharmacy near me"-type stuff Best guess is they're gambling I'm backed by Google's API and trying to poison their suggestion data.
- betaby 4y agoSorry I don't follow. Could please elaborate. You mean bots do query 'cialis' to get an ad-sense ad, while they are the same guys benefiting from ads shown? Or what? I genuinely want to understand the problem and most importantly the motivation.
- marginalia_nu 4y agoI don't understand the motivation either, but I think what they are attempting is to make e.g. typing cialis into Google suggest specific queries like the one i showed, which may be so overspecified they provide the spammers' links. That's my theory anyway.